To prevent XP from hijacking devices that require a different driver,
some people flash a different Vendor/Product ID into their FTDI based
device. 

Also some "new" devices may come out which are perfectly valid to be
driven by the ftdi_sio driver, but happen to have a vendor/product
id which is not (yet) included in the driver.  I've built a patch
that allows you to tell the driver "vendor=... product=...." to 
make it accept such devices.

Does this patch make sense?

I've built this patch for 2.4.28, but I'll port it for inclusion into
2.6 if people agree that this is useful.

	Roger. 

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